🏆 Chosen as Sci-Fi Story of the Month by Wattpad's @ScienceFiction. 🏆 Featured on Wattpad's @ScienceFiction and @ShortStory. 🏆X3 Awarded Best Science Fiction 🏆 Awarded Best Action 🏆 Awarded Best Novel 🏆 Chosen as Book of the Month by @CroodsGirl Shadow and Steel: A Sci-Fi Short Story Series. In a time when mankind has reached the stars, the light of progress does not shine upon all. On the fringes of known space, survival is a brutal dance of skill, cunning, and ruthlessness. Meet a hustler chasing the next score; a doctor trying to mend a broken world; an enforcer wrestling his demons; and a pilot who bends the rules of the sky. Each fights their own battles, until their lives become entangled in a web of dangerous alliances, shifting loyalties, and interstellar power struggles. Caught between blaster shoot-outs, high-speed starship chases and an unforgiving universe that devours the weak, the line between good and evil is as blurred as the stars themselves. In the silence of space, you either bleed out in Shadow or carve your path on Steel. Content Warning: This series contains violence, gore, death, harassment, strong language, drinking, drug use, psychological trauma, and mature situations. Reader discretion is advised.

Kyle's killed many, too many. He's killed for The Black Order. but he's not loyal to them, he's simply biding him time. He's waiting for the right time to strike back, and get revenge on his father for killing his mother. Gwen moves from town to town running from The Black Order, the organisation that ruined her life, and also gave her tremendous speed. But she can't run forever.... When tragedy strikes, Kyle and Gwen-two vastly different individuals-must choose: will they run or hide? Will they remain in the shadows, or rise up and take a stand?

a luka couffaine love story | miraculous ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I didn't know the melody I was searching for, Couldn't be composed alone. For to describe her, I needed to Let my heart out of my cage, So it could fall in a dance with her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Two different people, from two different countries, now living in one city. If he can draw melodies from the water itself, she can conjure words from thin air, making them flow into a rhythm. Together they could make a perfect song, don't you think? What happens when Preeti Das Durand packs up her life and moves to the city of Paris? It's not just a change of scenery, a whirlwind of conflicting emotions awaits her. And perhaps opening a mysterious box in her garden is enough to throw her world into a never-ending chaos. Will she be able to fight for what she believes is right? Or will she succumb to the dark powers that haunt Paris day and night? And will the blue-eyed Couffaine boy finally find his place in this world and realise how to write the melody of his own heart this time? All the questions will be answered in this novella. As the title suggests, Welcome To Paris! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We didn't need to express our love through words this time, when we could feel it through the beats of our hearts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ started : 28.02.2025 status : ongoing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The cover has been made by me. Do not copy/steal/repost. If you're reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, then please message me on my Wattpad/Pinterest/Tumblr user: @AngeBlancRose

"You really know how to make a girl feel special," I said, surprised at how easily the words slipped from my lips. Xander's expression shifted; his eyes sparkled with an intensity that made my breath hitch. "Not just any girl, Lia," he said, a hint of seriousness threading through his playful tone. "Only you." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dahlia Lauren, an aspiring floral designer with a passion for creating stunning arrangements, radiates warmth and spontaneity. Her charming spirit attracts everyone around her, but beneath her cheerful exterior lies a longing for deeper connections and a fear of vulnerability that haunts her. When she stumbles upon one of Xander's gardens during a floral competition preparation, she is captivated by its beauty and the mystery behind its creator. Xander Fernandez, a talented but reclusive landscape architect, spends his days designing breathtaking gardens that mirror his dreams but hide the turmoil of his past. Known for his meticulous nature and intense focus, he has built walls around his heart, leaving little room for connection. When their paths cross, the sparks fly. But little does Dahlia know, Xander's world is about to be shaken to its core as he realizes that she's the girl who changed him in a way no one else ever could - the one who's been hiding in plain sight all along. Highest ranking :- 🥇1st Place for Best Romance Scene # 1 florist # 1 boyxgirlrelationship # 4 shefallsfirst # 9 hefallsharder

Sit up straight, chin up, shoulders back Do not speak until spoken to, do not stutter, keep answers short and concise Do not smile, do not frown, do not laugh, do not sigh Punishments will be harsh on any offenders. In a world where individuality is suppressed and failure has no tolerance, one girl struggles to keep up with the crippling expectations placed upon her, barely surviving each day all while relentlessly trying to stand out among a sea of faceless, nameless units. Rebellions rage outside the facility's walls as two sides clash for control in a violent, stagnant struggle. The idea of Insurgents had always seemed so distant to her...something she's heard of all her life, but never seen. But when the two worlds finally collide, she finds herself thrust into an journey of discovery to find out who she really is and maybe find love in an unexpected way. Warning: Quite a bit of violence and a little graphic/triggering content, mentions of s/h PLEASE REPORT IF SEEN ANYWHERE OTHER THAN WATTPAD Highest ranking: #3 in dystopia out of 43.5k stories Rose Gold Awards (2025): 1st Place in Dystopian Category, 2nd Place for Best Writing Style Ecstatic Awards : 1st Place in the Action Category The Triple Moon Awards: 2nd Place in the Dystopian Category, 1st place for Best Worldbuilding Curse of the Pride Awards: 2nd Place in the Adventure Category Rose Gold Awards (2022): 1st Place for Best Prologue, 2nd place in the Dystopian Category The Flower Buds Awards (2022): 3rd Place for Dystopian Category Lion Awards (2023): Runner Up for Action/Adventure Category The Imperfectly Perfect Mini Awards (2025): 3rd place for Best Prologue Leal Mini-Awards (2021 Fall Edition): Runner Up for Best Protagonist, Honorable Mention for Best Plot Padauk Mini Awards (2024): Honorable Mention for Best World Writer's Recognition Awards (2021): Shortlist

Good morning, I'm Kalliope Aoidós (yes, spelled like this: Καλλιόπη Ἀοιδός... pretty impressive, right?), Technical Account Manager at a company in... well, I'm sure you don't really need my CV for this. Let's try again. Hey, I'm Kalliope Aoidós, and I've got a little problem. Okay, more like an incurable, family-heritage problem. Technically, it's genetic-something my family has been conveniently passing down for centuries. One of my great-great-great-great-grandparents thought it was totally appropriate to insult his muse, calling her a "good-for-nothing" and a "sellout." How charming, right? Too bad that muse was THE Muse after whom I'm named. Apparently, she's not exactly the warm and fuzzy type. So why on earth do I have the honor of carrying the name of the one who cursed my entire family tree? Oh, that was my grandmother's brilliant idea. In a way, they "sacrificed" me to her by giving me her name, hoping it would change her mind about the curse. Spoiler alert: It didn't. So here I am, just like hundreds of my ancestors, stuck in the same lovely swamp. I'm a Book Jumper or, as my grandmother (who has a flair for dramatic epithets) likes to call me, a βιβλιοποδητής, which basically means "walker of books." And these are my stories. Or, more accurately, my delightful misadventures. Copyright 2025 AnemoneMarino. All Rights Reserved. Note: All the pictures I've used in this story are not mine; they belong to their respective owners. The cover and banners are made by me.

FEATURED: New Adult by @Romance Ambassador's Monthly Pick (July 2025) by @AmbassadorsIN Advika Bansal is that 20-year-old effortlessly juggling between her internship and college life while getting time to do things she likes (at the cost of sacrificing her sleep cycle). Reading books made it to the first! Nobody, including her best friend Aarvi, could impress her with their book taste. And, Heaven fell on her lap when her boyfriend Harsh gifted her the new national Bestseller, You Belong With Me by Aadya Chatterjee. She fell instantly in love with its male lead, Ishaan Ahuja. So in love that it made everyone around her go mad. Well... Perhaps, it was that crazy love that made her meet THE Ishaan Ahuja, living in the book's world. It took one hell of a journey for Ishaan and Advika to stay together, facing the wrath of everyone from both worlds, including the author Aadya. Well... Did they even stay together till the end? *** Cover by @arrowgig

** 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉. The young widow Rebecca must choose between her old love or the chance of a new beginning. ** "You're still here When I close my eyes I still see you I still feel you And we'll never be apart You're still here Still here in my heart" - Natasha Bedingfield - Rebecca and Aiden live a perfect love story - until a plane crash ends their happily ever after. Overwhelmed by grief and the loss of the love of her life, Rebecca reaches for her cell phone in a moment of despair and writes a message to Aiden's old number. To her great shock, she receives a reply with Aiden's typical vow of love: "Forever yours." Touched by the comforting messages, Rebecca soon clings to this mysterious connection to her deceased husband. It is only when she meets Ian, another mourner, at a grief therapy session that she slowly begins to open up to life again. But while Ian tries to help Rebecca escape her grief, his desperate attempts collide with the mysterious messages of a past that Rebecca simply can't - or won't - let go of. Will Rebecca find the courage to fall in love again, or will she remain trapped in her longing for Aiden and continue to cling to the messages from the afterlife? "𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 - 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠" 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑐𝘩𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝘩𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. *** English Version of my WSC Story

It's the 1860s. As the American Civil War rages on, two teenagers find unexpected refuge in their budding friendship-one that blossoms into something more. In a small Maryland town balanced on the edge of loyalty and rebellion, they find themselves irrevocably drawn together. One is a free spirit, sharp-tongued, and unconventional young lady. The other, a charming outsider raised among aristocrats, jaded by the frivolous life of high society. She's lost someone to the war. He knows it's the wrong time to fall in love. But the heart rarely waits for permission. ┎┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈┒ This slow-burning romance explores the courage it takes to hope-especially when everything around you says not to. With letters tucked under pillows, glances that linger too long, and a town that watches too closely, their story is one of stolen moments and hard decisions. Featuring beloved tropes like friends to lovers, and the yearning ache of uncertain affection, this sweeping historical drama captures the uncertain beauty of first love in a world where trust is a radical act-and loving someone may be the bravest choice of all. ┖┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈┚ ------ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ------ Top Rank Tags: #1 on 1860 #6 on Clean This book is entirely a work of fiction, inspired by the historical events of the American Civil War. The characters are all fictional, and all rights to this work are reserved by the author. ♠︎Started in August 2024.♠︎

Robin Prakash, a magic doctor from the land of Kingsbury, is invited by his older brother to visit him in the land of the Great Plains. Landing him on the steps of an old farmhouse on the outskirts of a small rural town, known only by the overly cheerful locals as "Sunshine Acres". Quickly running low on funds from his search, Robin agrees to become a cook and cleaner for the recluse sorceress, her sassy apprentice, and their shapeshifting pet, who call "Sunshine Acres" their home. However, when his brother finally arrives in town, he comes with a hidden motive: to steal the sorceress's broken heart stone, a large piece of which she has already gifted to Robin. After being betrayed by his brother for power, Robin must team up with new friends to free the sorceress he has fallen in love with and fight for the new life he has found true joy in. ------------------------------- "I'm looking for a sorceress." "HA!" The old woman laughed, eyes gleaming with amusement. "Might as well admit you're lookin' for trouble, boy." . Cover Character Illustrations by @minoruru on Insta/Tumblr ❤️